ACG 2016 Annual Scientific Meeting

Welcome to the ACG 2016 Annual Meeting Call for Abstracts

ABSTRACT NOTIFICATIONS: Abstract acceptance/non-acceptance notifications were emailed to Presenting Authors on July 15th.If you submitted an abstract and did not receive an email on July 15th, please contact ACG via email at education@gi.org, or call ACG at 1-301-263-9000. The deadline to respond to an invitation to present is 3:00pm (Eastern time) on Friday, July 22, 2016. Please note: You may not have received notification if your email address changed since your abstract was submitted, or if your institution’s email server blocked the email or rejected it as possible spam. The American College of Gastroenterology invites abstracts from all member and non-member physicians, including gastroenterologists, internists, surgeons, hepatologists, radiologists, pediatricians, and GI fellows for its 2016 Annual Scientific Meeting. This meeting will be held October 14-19, 2016 at the The Venetian in Las Vegas in conjunction with the ACG’s Annual Postgraduate Course on October 15-16.

The deadline for submission of abstracts is Monday, June 13, 2016 at 11:59 pm Eastern Time. This deadline will be strictly enforced and no exceptions will be made. There will be heavy site traffic during the days leading

up to the deadline and on the final day, so plan accordingly and do not wait until the last minute to submit your abstract! No submissions, modifications, corrections or addition/deletion of authors will be accepted after June 13. An administrative fee of $60 is required for each abstract submitted. There will be no refunds and no exceptions made to this policy. This fee must be paid online.

Notification of abstract acceptance as an oral or poster presentation will be sent via e-mail to all authors/co-authors of a submitted abstract prior to July 31, 2016. Important: Please provide an email that will still be in use in July, otherwise notification may not reach you.

All abstracts submitted, regardless of whether they are selected for oral or poster presentation, will be published in a special supplement to the October 2016 issue of The American Journal of Gastroenterology. Presenting authors whose abstract has been accepted for either oral or poster presentation MUST REGISTER as an attendee for the ACG 2016 Annual Scientific Meeting and are required to attend the meeting to present their work at the assigned date and time.